1. © Crown copyright 2008 RAISEonline Question Level Analysis February 2008

2. © Crown copyright 2008 Data management to support QLA The role of data management within RAISEonline to support QLA Entering the pupils into the system with common transfer files (CTF)  This should be carried out using a CTF produced from the schools own MIS Common CTF difficulties experienced by schools  Most problems begin with schools MIS data sets  Incomplete data sets  Conflicting data sets  Confused data sets Copying school cohorts using the data management functionality  Not advised as the best practice because pupil characteristics and context may change even if pupils remain the same

3. © Crown copyright 2008 QLA Templates Downloaded from RAISE Cohorts must be uploaded first using a CTF Item level responses entered into the template Enabling macros  These must be enabled to ensure correct upload of QLA data Entering item level responses into the mark templates  Type in marks as though to a spreadsheet Entering blank responses  These must be entered as N  Note that blanks will not be uploaded to the system Uploading populated QLA templates

4. © Crown copyright 2008 To download the QLA template click on ‘Import data’, then ‘Download example templates’ then ‘QLA’

5. © Crown copyright 2008 Question Level Analysis templates can be found in here

6. © Crown copyright 2008 Macros must be enabled to ensure data is uploaded into RAISE

7. © Crown copyright 2008 All marks must be entered, if there are any blanks the results will not be uploaded into RAISE Where a pupil didn’t attempt a question ‘N’ must be entered

8. © Crown copyright 2008 An error message will be displayed if an incorrect character is entered

9. © Crown copyright 2008 If there are blanks in the template an error message will be displayed when trying to save the document

10. © Crown copyright 2008 To import the QLA template click on ‘Import data’

11. © Crown copyright 2008 Click on Question Level Analysis

12. © Crown copyright 2008 Use the ‘Browse’ button to navigate to the QLA template

13. © Crown copyright 2008 When you have navigated to the QLA template click on ‘Open’

14. © Crown copyright 2008 Click on ‘Upload File’

15. © Crown copyright 2008 The page will refresh and you can ‘View Report’ In this case the message displays ‘Completed with result type No’

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17. This time the message displays ‘Completed with result type Yes’

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19. We can now use the QLA wizard to navigate to Question level reports and graphs

20. © Crown copyright 2008 In this example we have navigated to a KS2 2006/07 Maths test A topic report

21. © Crown copyright 2008 This graph is displayed at the top of the screen and shows the % Correct Responses for each topic for Maths test A for both School and National

22. © Crown copyright 2008 Underneath the graph this table is displayed which shows the school data and compares this with National data showing the ‘% Differences from National’

23. © Crown copyright 2008 When we choose the Pupil List report from the QLA wizard it displays the ‘% Correct responses’ for each pupil broken down by topics also showing the overall ‘% Correct Response’

24. © Crown copyright 2008 When clicking on a pupils % correct response figure we are shown a radar graph showing that pupils performance

25. © Crown copyright 2008 This information is also shown in a table below the radar graph also showing the differences from National

26. © Crown copyright 2008 Training and Support is provided through... System tutorials, help pages and FAQs System helpdesk enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk eLearning material www.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/esp www.nationalstrategiescpd.org.uk/course/view.php?id=76 New home page with easy-to-access news headlines

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